Kazuo Ishiguro

Inglaterra en la Edad Media. Del paso de los romanos por la isla sólo quedan ruinas, y Arturo y Merlín –amados por unos, odiados por otros– son leyendas del pasado. Entre la bruma todavía habitan ogros, y británicos y sajones conviven en unas tierras yermas, distribuidos en pequeñas...

La esperada novela de Kazuo Ishiguro tras el Premio Nobel. Una historia de ciencia ficción que indaga en lo que nos hace humanos. Klara es una AA, una Amiga Artificial, especializada en el cuidado de niños. Pasa sus días en una tienda, esperando a que alguien la adquiera y se la lleve a una...

Kathy, Tommy e Ruth vivono in un collegio, Hailsham, immerso nella campagna inglese. Non hanno genitori, ma non sono neppure orfani...

Estreia de Ishiguro, este breve romance narra a vida de duas mulheres no pós-guerra japonês e estabelece os elementos que marcam o estilo do escritor e definem sua carreira — que culminaria no prêmio Nobel: a mistura exata entre drama histórico e pessoal, e personagens que, por meio de...

La prima settimana di libertà dell'irreprensibile maggiordomo inglese Stevens diventa occasione per ripensare la propria vita spesa al servizio...

1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of WWII, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson; his evenings drinking with...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY TAIKA WAITITI AND STARRING JENNA ORTEGA AND AMY ADAMS A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, a magnificent novel about the wondrous...

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes “a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic. One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st...

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes an inspired sequence of stories as affecting as it is beautiful. With the clarity and precision that have become his trademarks, Kazuo Ishiguro interlocks five short...

England, 1930s: Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Moving between London and Shanghai...

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the...

Do ganhador do Nobel Kazuo Ishiguro, autor dos livros Não me abandone jamais e O gigante enterrado, um novo romance sobre o que significa ser humano. Klara, um Amigo Artificial com habilidades de observação impressionantes, estuda com cuidado o comportamento de todos que passam pela vitrine...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory. In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged...

The Nobel Lecture in Literature, delivered by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans) at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 7, 2017. In their announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy recognized the emotional force of...

Tutto inizia con quella che sembra essere soltanto una strana forma d'amnesia: un pianista di fama internazionale, Ryder, arriva in un albergo della città...

I quadri dell'anziano pittore Masuji Ono «per il momento sono riposti altrove». Il Giappone ha perso la guerra e chi ne ha appoggiato ed esaltato...

Shanghai, inizio del Novecento: un bambino, un padre che lavora nel commercio dell'oppio fra Inghilterra e Cina, una madre che si batte per i diritti...

Seduta in vetrina sotto i raggi gentili del Sole, Klara osserva il mondo di fuori e aspetta di essere acquistata e portata a casa. Promette di dedicare tutti i suoi straordinari talenti di androide B2 al piccolo amico che la sceglierà. Gli terrà compagnia, lo proteggerà dalla malattia...

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler...

A Nobel-díjas író novelláiban is ugyanazzal a pontossággal és finomsággal építkezik, mint amit regényeiben már megszokhattunk...